Speaking to us, Major General Do Ngoc Canh, Director of the Department of Drug and Crime Prevention, said: “Transnational drug trafficking rings are often led by foreigners and have a very wide range of activities. These criminals are very aggressive. If they are discovered and arrested by the authorities, they are ready to use "hot" weapons to fight back fiercely. Therefore, the leaders and commanders of the Department of Drug and Crime Prevention regularly direct units to always be vigilant, promote professional activities, promptly detect, organize early and far-reaching prevention. The above-mentioned project is one of the typical achievements in 2024, successfully arresting 4 subjects, seizing 30,000 pink pills, and more than 1kg of opium resin.”

  Officers and soldiers of Chieng On Border Post (Border Guard of Son La province) patrol to protect the border. Photo: LE HIEU

Based on the report of the scouts of Team 1, Group 1 on the discovery of a number of suspects organizing a drug trafficking and transportation ring from Laos through the border area of ​​Song Ma district, Son La province into the interior for consumption, the Department of Drug and Crime Prevention and Control issued a decision approving the proposal to open a special project to fight. In early May 2024, the project chaired by Group 1, in coordination with the Son La Provincial Border Guard, was established. In less than a week after that, the scouts investigated, verified, and found the ringleaders and "henchmen" in the ring. At the same time, they clarified their methods and tricks of operation.

“At the end of phase 1, the Task Force had basic information about the suspects involved in the internal border network. Phase 2 was the most intense and memorable time of the fight. This was because this was a time of extremely tense intellectual competition. The suspects were extremely sophisticated and cunning. All their transactions were conducted on Lao soil,” said comrade Nguyen Quang Thanh, Deputy Head of Task Force 1 and Deputy Head of the Task Force.

The question for the Task Force is how to create a professional situation for the subjects to organize transactions in an ambush, ensuring the arrest of subjects transporting and trading drugs. With the active participation of the Drug and Crime Prevention Department, especially the Chieng On Border Guard Station (Border Guard of Son La Province), the Task Force has had an optimal plan, organizing to intercept the subjects as soon as they set foot across the border.

Border guards and militia of Son La province patrol to protect the border. Photo: LE HIEU

Accordingly, the detectives identified that the subjects in Song Ma district had relationships with many major contacts in Hua Phan, Laos. During the transaction, after agreeing on the price and quantity with the buyer, the subjects would contact the contact in Laos to order the drugs. Taking advantage of the darkness, they transported the goods through trails and openings across the border of Song Ma district to Vietnam.

Posing as a big customer, through an intermediary, the detective connected with the "boss" in Hua Phan a large order that needed to be delivered urgently. On the morning of June 16, 2024, the Task Force received information that the subjects would transport goods from Laos to Vietnam through the Cat village area, Muong Hung commune, Song Ma district. The Task Force immediately held a Task Force meeting, with the participation of all key officers in charge of the directions and spearheads, to discuss the specific plan to fight the case. The Deputy Captain of Team 1, Group 1, in charge of the main mobile force, went to Cat village to survey, arrange locations, positions of checkpoints and organize ambushes. At 4:00 a.m. on June 17, the entire task force crossed the forest and reached the agreed location.

Around noon one day in June 2024, a Mong man carrying a dark bag walked from the Lao border into Vietnam. When discovered, the detectives identified and confirmed that the subject was Giang A Di (born in 1981, residing in Pha Thong village, Huoi 1 commune, Song Ma district) - one of the main "links" of the criminal ring identified by the Task Force. Therefore, as soon as Giang A Di entered the ambush area, the Border Guard force appeared and quickly controlled him, not giving him a chance to resist. Checking the bag Giang A Di was carrying on the spot, the detectives discovered 6,000 pink pills. After arresting Giang A Di, the Task Force received information that the subjects would be trading in the area opposite Phieng Khoai commune, Yen Chau district, Son La province. Immediately, the task force quickly mobilized to Chieng On Border Post to continue the new battle.

On the same afternoon, two Laotians drove a pickup truck from the Lao side towards landmark 235. Seeing that the subjects were acting suspiciously, when they saw them carrying a black bag taken from the car and walking about 200m into Vietnamese territory, a working group from the Chieng On Border Guard Station appeared. During an administrative check, the working group discovered that the Laotian man was carrying many pink, cylindrical tablets and black plastic packages with a characteristic smell of opium.

At the Chieng On Border Post, Thao U Thoong (born in 1972) and Thao Tum Vong Pha (born in 1982), both residing in Sop San cluster, Xieng Kho district, Hua Phan province, confessed that the tablets were pink phien and the plastic packages were opium resin and were being sold to a Vietnamese person. The total amount of evidence seized was 12,000 pink phien tablets and more than 1.16 kg of opium.

Subject Giang A Say and evidence. Photo: HOA BINH

Phase 2 of the project has ended. From the information provided by the base, although we ambushed and seized both people and goods, but with their reckless nature and desire for high profits, it is believed that after capturing the above subjects, the criminals judged that we would let our guard down, so they still urgently sought ways to deliver the goods. to Vietnam in order to recover what they had lost. However, they did not know that, on this side of the border, the Task Force had "cast bait and waited for the fish to swim to them".

As we calculated, at 7:40 p.m. on June 23, 2024, in the Cang village area (Chieng Khua commune, Moc Chau district, Son La province), the task force continued to arrest Giang A Say (born in 1974, residing in Ban Cong commune, Tram Tau district, Yen Bai province) with 12,000 pink pills, when he had just arrived in the area.

At the investigation agency, at first the subjects were all evasive and denied their crimes. But with a determined attitude, both fighting and persuading, they were forced to honestly confess all their actions.

THE PHAN - TRUC HA

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